Dr. Henry Klassen completed his medical internship at the Cambridge Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and residency in ophthalmology at Yale Eye Center. He received his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. He next did a combined fellowship in medical retina and retinal transplantation research at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Institute of Ophthalmology in London.
Klassen was director of stem cell research at Children’s Hospital of Orange County and senior scientist at the Singapore Eye Research Institute prior to joining UC Irvine’s Department of Ophthalmology as an assistant professor. He is also a principal investigator of the Retinal Regeneration Program, a multi-university collaboration studying ways to regenerate damaged retina cells through stem cell transplantation and tissue engineering. Klassen has outside appointments at the Schepens Eye Research Institute and the Stem Cell Center of the Third Hospital of Peking University.
The Discovery Eye Foundation
Watch a presentation by Dr. Henry Klassen on retinal stem cell replacement here by the Discovery Eye Foundation.
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